He is a Distinguished University Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Dean of Research of College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, and director of the Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB) at the CSE department at UTA.

Prior to joining UTA in 2004, Das has held positions at Microsoft Research, Compaq and the University of Memphis.

Other highlights of his research have been in time series mining[6], approximate query processing[7], and Deep Web analytics[8].

He is presently working on areas such as machine learning approaches for approximate query processing, and fairness and explainability in data management systems.

[citation needed] Gautam Das has been on the editorial board of the journals ACM TODS and IEEE TKDE.